Papers on occupational health
| dc.contributor | Leinbaugh, T. |
| dc.contributor.author | Weindling, P. (ed) |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:49:13Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:49:13Z |
| dc.date.created | 1984 |
| dc.date.issued | 1984-03-01 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0919 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/0919 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/0919 |
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| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.title | Papers on occupational health |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.size | 354483 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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THE RISE AND DECLINE OF WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
Victorian Britain can be seen in terms of a largely full-employment
but low-welfare society. In such circumstances a workman's greatest
need was for a fit and healthy body, for only with such could he expect
to perform the work required to obtain for himself and his family
food, shelter and clothing without recourse to the poor law, private
charity or other forms of non-wage financial support. One of the
major threats to bodily and material sufficiency, especially for
miners, railwaymen, merchant seamen and Others in dangerous employment,
was provided by industrial injury or disease without compensation. 2
It was not until 1897 that Parliament passed a Workmen's Compensation
Act giving large groups of workers, in the event of physical injury,
a statutory right to compensatiin from their employers regardless
of the employer's fault and largely regardless of their own part in
precipitating their misfortune. This Act established what Beveridg . . .
